Yes, I know it’s flotsam and jetsam which properly speaking is “wreckage of a ship or its cargo floating on the water or washed ashore.” It also means “worthless or miscellaneous things.” I’m thinking of the later definition. I haven’t misspelled jetsam but properly spelled Jastram as in the Rev. Dr. Nathan R. Jastram Professor of Theology at Concordia University, Mequon, WI. While Jastram personally isn’t jetsam, his 2004 article in the January 2004 Concordia Theological Quarterly is the wreckage of a once coherent theology floating on the seas of feminism. (more…)
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Flotsam and Jastram
Monday, July 7th, 2008Father Knows Best?
Thursday, May 29th, 2008It starts with fat, old Eli. He is a lousy father. Scripture records that Eli honored his sons above the Lord. He would not properly discipline them for despising the offering of the Lord and for sleeping with the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting. This was one father who certainly didn’t know best. (more…)
The Lioness’s Share
Monday, May 26th, 2008G.K. Chesterton said that “every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things” (The New Jerusalem, 211.) (more…)
You Can Learn a lot from women, so Don’t Sacrifice them
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008There are shows aimed at men and shows at women. While, as far as I know, no one has thought of a derisive term for movies aimed at men such as “Male Movie” or “Testosterone Tape,” we do have the derisive term “Chick Flick.” Now that my sons are out in the working world, I am left alone with women to watch movies. I find no pleasure in watching a movie and waiting to cry; however, there is even less virtue in watching a typical male movie and waiting for other people to die. Still when watching the things my wife and daughters opt for I find myself dying not crying. (more…)
You’re Just a Kid!
Thursday, April 10th, 2008“You’re just a kid!” O how age can be made an accusation. (more…)
The Sin Nobody Talks About
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Having recently published a letter, I didn’t think The Lutheran Witness would, I decided to publish this article Higher Things wouldn’t. To be fair, it’s not that they didn’t think it worthwhile. They just thought it too risky, perhaps risque. You decide for yourself. (more…)
Lutheran Education
Monday, February 11th, 2008Our Large Catechism addresses the education of our children under the Fourth Commandment: “For all authority flows and is propagated from the authority of parents. For where a father is unable alone to educate his child, he employs a schoolmaster to instruct him(141).” We confess that the first, the preferable, way to educate children is for the father to do it. If he, in conjunction with his wife is unable to do it, then he should employ a schoolmaster. Lutheran education should be seen as flowing not from the state or church, but from the home. What every Lutheran pastor and church, even those with day schools, should be doing is admonishing parents to take personal responsibility for the education of their children. Lutheran homeschoolers have done just this, and the fact that our synod doesn’t mention and promote this is telling. (more…)